International Education at Washington and Lee strives to create an effective global learning environment by providing leadership, administrative oversight, and broad support for international learning and global engagement. Its primary functions are:

To develop, guide, and monitor opportunities for overseas learning by students;

To support faculty logistically in their international research, teaching, and curricular development;

To advise and assist students, faculty and visitors from abroad in their integration into and involvement with the university and the local community; and

To promote the ideals of global citizenship, intercultural appreciation, and mutual understanding in a rapidly changing world.

CIE News

W&L and Leuphana Löneburg University Sign AgreementWashington and Lee University and Leuphana Löneburg University, Germany, have recently signed a mutual Memorandum of Understanding that will provide opportunities for student, faculty and staff collaboration.

Radio IERadio IE is heard every Monday evening from 6:00-7:00 p.m. on WLUR, 91.5 FM.

From the Blog

Get Out of Here!Â Â Â Â I never have any real doubts about my constant message to students and faculty regarding the importance of travel abroad and of opening horizons as a means to prepare for the future (or, in some respects, catch up to … Continue reading →

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Buried Dogs in BayreuthÂ Â Â Â Â I recently passed through Bayreuth to visit our partner university and to check in with the Washington and Lee Spring Term Abroad program that is centered there.Â Bayreuth is an historic town of the northern Bavaria region of Franconia, … Continue reading →

W&L International News

Executive-in-Residence Leland Miller '98 to Give Talk on China's Economy on March 10Leland Miller '98, CEO of China Beige Book International, will give a talk, "Demystifying China's Economy in 2015," at 7:30 p.m. on Mar. 10 in Stackhouse Theater. This event is free and open to the public. Investors and policymakers obsess over the growth of China's economy, but what is actually happening across regions and sectors […]

W&L to Launch Construction of $13.5 Million Center for Global LearningConstruction of a new $13.5 million Center for Global Learning at Washington and Lee University has received final approval from the university's board of trustees and is scheduled to begin the last week of May. Completion of the final phase of the center depends on completing the remaining $1.5 million of the fundraising goal.

W&L Awards Two Global Learning Leadership PrizesWashington and Lee University has awarded Global Learning Leadership Prizes to two seniors for 2014. The recipients are Johan (Manuel) Garcia Padilla, a native of Mexico from Mount Vermont, Wash., and a Spanish major with a minor in Latin American and Caribbean studies, and Johnson scholar Haley Smith, a double major in biology and environmental science, from Asheville, N.C.

W&L Seniors Win Davis Projects for Peace GrantDarby Shuler and Johan (Manuel) Garcia Padilla, seniors at Washington and Lee University, have won a $10,000 grant from the Davis Foundation Projects for Peace 2014. The grant will fund their work in El Salvador this summer to provide amputees with prosthetic hands created by a 3D printer.